Commodity Supplemental Food Program

The Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP) provides supplementary United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) food packages to the low-income elderly of at least 60 years of age.[1][2] It is one of the fifteen federally-funded nutrition assistance programs of the Food and Nutrition Service (FNS), a USDA agency.[3] The CSFP currently serves about 600,000 low‐income people every month.[4]

CSFP formerly served low-income pregnant and breastfeeding women and children, until February 6, 2014, when the responsibility to supplement their diets was shifted to the WIC: Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children.[5]

  1. ^ "Commodity Supplemental Food Program - Fact Sheet" (PDF). Food and Nutrition Service. Retrieved August 17, 2016.
  2. ^ "The Role of the Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP) in Nutritional Assistance to Mothers, Infants, Children, and Seniors". The Urban Institute. Retrieved August 17, 2016.
  3. ^ "What Is CSFP?". National CSFP Association. March 27, 2012. Retrieved August 17, 2016.
  4. ^ "Commodity Supplemental Food Program" (PDF). Feeding America. Retrieved August 19, 2016.
  5. ^ "Commodity Foods". Diet.com. Retrieved August 18, 2016.